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Originally posted by carnation
You can sometimes do private adoptions for less than that, like if you know a pregnant woman who will give you her baby. If her hospitalization is covered by Medicaid, you could get a very low-cost adoption as long as you can find a lawyer who will give you a decent price and not act like he found the baby and worked with the woman throughout her pregnancy.
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A lot of newspapers have a "Want To Adopt" category in the classified section. I know both the one where I work now and the one where I used to work do. At my former paper I took a bunch of those ads. One woman in particular placed an ad, then a few months later she sent me a little card and a picture of her newly adopted baby, so they do work.
A friend of mine adopted her son privately. The birth mother was a friend of a friend of hers. I have no idea about all the legal things they did, but I do know my friend and her husband took the woman and her boyfriend into their home for the last several months of the pregnancy and it worked out well for all involved. (Her son is now 10, it's hard to believe!)